Example sentences of "point [is] made [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This point is made not in the interests of pedantry , but because it bears directly on the criticisms of current approaches to the global system that lie at the heart of this book . |
| 2 | One fascinating piece of information given in E. R. Wickham 's historical study of the Church in nineteenth-century Sheffield shows the pattern of pew rentals in the parish church ( now the Cathedral ) , and the point is made very forcibly that very few seats were available for the non-renting poor . |
| 3 | In the DES introductory booklet to the GCSE ( 1985 ) the point is made somewhat confusingly : |
| 4 | This point is made explicitly by several of the contributors to this volume ( see Mary Midgley , Jean Grimshaw , Joanna Hodge and Anne Seller ) . |
| 5 | It is a process analogous in some ways to story-telling , where the point is made precisely through a sacrifice of the kind of literalness and explicitness which the logician , by the nature of his training , tends to regard as the ultimate requirement of clarity , and indeed an intrinsic feature of truth . |
| 6 | A similar point is made now in the context of assemblies : " When a man came to the assembly from one of the regions , the king was concerned to ask him what news he had brought with him that ought to be reported and discussed , and he would be strictly required before he next returned to the palace to make exhaustive enquiries outside as well as within the realm , getting information from outsiders as well as from his own people , and from enemies as well as from friends , without concerning himself overmuch about how any person questioned had come by his information . " |
| 7 | The point is made more seriously , and more savagely , in Bradbury 's The History Man ( 1975 ) , a fiercely partisan novel where an academic militant is exposed as a manipulative hypocrite , his ambitions directed more to sex and money than to revolution . |